AFAM Survival Guide: Volume 2 Launch
After the overwhelming amount of positive feedback received in response to the “Quarantine Survival Guide,” we decided to make it a permanent feature of the Program! The AFAM Survival Guide is a bi-monthly collection of literature, art, recipes, and perspectives from the AFAM Studies Community. The premier issue of the second volume is available to […]
Livestream: Dr. Chude-Sokei Presents Some of His Latest Research
Join the conversation now on Zoom by RSVPing on Latin American Studies’ website. If you missed it live, it’s also available on the Center’s Facebook page. Event Description Book Talk with Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, and Director of the African American Studies Program at Boston […]
Dr. Paula Austin Featured in New CAS Video Series
Dr. Paula Austin, professor of history & African American studies, shares her most recent research with CAS in this new video. Description Join Professor Austin as she takes us on a journey back nearly 100 years, to Jim Crow Washington, DC, where black youths navigated discrimination in ways that remain all too familiar to young […]
AFAM Studies Minor Founds BIPOC Mental Health Collective at BU
This summer, Psychology major and AFAM Studies minor Kesha Perkins (CAS ’21) founded the BIPOC Mental Health Collective at Boston University. The student collective serves both as a safe space for minority students to engage in positive mental health practices and as an agent for change within BU’s on-campus mental health resource center. “I organized […]
Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei gives talk on Sound Project at the Geothe Institute
On Thursday 10/22, AFAM Studies Director Louis Chude-Sokei gave a talk on his current research project on sound at the event Listening to History: Sound, Space, and Remembrance hosted by the Geothe Institut-Boston. Dr. Chude-Sokei’s current research project, “Sometimes you just have to give it your attention,” is “an auditive, multi-perspective investigation of the former […]
Dr. Paula Austin featured in Arts & Sciences magazine: A History of Racial Discrimination and the Fight for Change
Dr. Paula Austin, professor of History and African American Studies, is featured in the Arts & Sciences magazine article A History of Racial Discrimination and the Fight for Change by Marc Chalufour. The article discusses Dr. Austin’s debut book, Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life (NYU Press, 2019), […]
Prof. Birenbaum Quintero awarded Ruth Stone Prize
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Chair of CFA Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Professor of Latin American Studies, and affiliated faculty of African American Studies! Dr. Birenbaum Quintero was recently awarded the Ruth Stone Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology for his book Rites, Rights, and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific […]
TODAY: Activism and the Role of Black Women
“Activism and the Role of Black Women” Tues., Oct. 27 | 6:00 PM EDT Speakers: Bree Newsome, Activist, Writer, Artist; Gabby Williams, WNBA Player, Chicago Sky; Dr. Saida Grundy, Assistant Professor, Boston University Moderator: Marisa Moseley, Head Coach, Women’s Basketball, Boston University Co-sponosored by: BU Diversity & Inclusion, Department of Athletics, College of Arts & […]
Arts & Sciences Magazine Feature: A Better Future
Several professors affiliated with the African American Studies Program are featured in the newest issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine. For the project titled A Better Future, the magazine interviewed researchers including Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei, Dr. Katherine Levine Einstein, Dr. Saida Grundy, Dr. Margarita Simon Guillory, and Dr. Spencer Piston. Here’s a preview of what […]
BU Today Feature: It’s Time for Reparations and Transitional Justice for African Americans
African American Studies Professor Joyce Hope Scott wrote an opinion article featured in BU Today, “It’s Time for Reparations and Transitional Justice for African Americans.” The article discusses the grander scope of the reparations movement, which consists of more than solely monetary reparations and repairs damages that occurred long after the end of slavery itself. […]